Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frenchman, a German, or a Jew? We have to get back to a free evaluation of the individual. If I look around at my four or five best friends, I find that two or three of them are Jews . . . I am their friend because between us there exists the human relationship of love. We need the courage to love. Hate stems from a sluggishness of the heart; it is cheap and easy. Love is always a risk, but only a risk brings victory...
...Literary Guild also reached abroad, in a departure from its routine menu, to give its 900,000 members Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day. Long considered one of the world's fine stylists, Miss Bowen was at her best in this study of tenuous human relationships in wartime Britain. To Be a Pilgrim, Joyce Gary's fourth novel to be published in the U.S., was a knowing, good-humored look at 20th Century British manners & morals seen through the eyes of an old Victorian individualist. England's shyest novelist and one of her best...
Wild defined his "realism" as the conviction that we live in a "world of objects which exists independently of man" and the belief that "there is a real right and wrong independent of human opinions...
...Bowles has dropped several John O'Hara characters into a Prokosch setting and used them to establish the fact that the human race is going into a moral Sahara fast. It is difficult to picture these people going any other way, but at the same time it is unfair to use them to symbolize all of humanity...
Basing his conclusion on the assumptions that human behavior is a natural phenomenon and is an orderly process, Zipf listed three impediments to world domination. The first is the movement of persons, goods, information, and services which is subject to the harmonic law, governing the rank and size of cities...